A man in a cap and overcoat poses beside an automobile with a canvas roof on a snow covered road beside Bear Creek in Bear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. Shows an arched rock formation identified as the "doughnut" on a ridge. Rocks and...

Three Sioux chiefs, including Black Heart, Rocky Bear and Standing Bear, wear feather headdresses and pose on a platform in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Ambrose Park in Brooklyn, New York. Black Heart's wife sits next to him in the...

a letter to the Western History Department dated May 24, 1968, letter continues that Chief Luther Standing Bear wrote four books titled: My people, the Sioux (1928), My Indian boyhood (1931), Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933) and Stories of the...

Three Native American Sioux chiefs, leaders of the Ghost Dance, pose outside a building in front of a covered wagon, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. Chief Kicking Bear (left) wears a breechcloth, tunic and vest with his blanket on the ground;...

Portrait of North American Indian (probably Standing Rock Sioux) William Ghost Bear and his wife Sarah Ghost Bear. William Ghost Bear wears a hair pipe breast plate, a shirt, beaded arm and wrist bands and a blanket wrapped around his waist...

Ten Native American chiefs who met with General Nelson Miles to stop the Indian War stand in a semi-circle in front of a teepee. Among the chiefs are Standing Bull, Bear Who Looks Back Running, Has the Big White Horse, White Tail, Liver Bear,...

Ten Native American chiefs who met with General Nelson Miles to stop the Indian War stand in a semi-circle in front of a teepee. Among the chiefs are Standing Bull, Bear Who Looks Back Running, Has the Big White Horse, White Tail, Liver Bear,...

Brave Bear's wife and brother, Native American (Sioux) woman and man, pose outdoors near a tepee in an Indian encampment, possibly near Fort Randall, South Dakota. Men in military uniforms stand near tepees.

Group portrait of two white and four Native American men, Front row seated, left to right: Quick Bear or Mato Ohanko (aka Fast Bear, Wozhazha Band of the Brulé), Spotted Tail (Brulé), Swift Bear, and Yellow Hand (Yellow Hair, Cheyenne) Back row...

A man on horseback leads a horses around a bend on Bear Creek trail south of Ouray (Ouray County), Colorado; Potosi Peak is to the west. Stone retaining walls support the trail that is cut into the side of a cliff. Bear Creek is below the cliff.

View of Bear Boody located at 3707 Walnut Street in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The two-story brick commercial style building has paired windows on the second story, a recessed entry, a shaped parapet, and houndstooth brickwork....

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stands in the center of the back row of a group of Native American chiefs and several United States government officials, possibly after the Battle of Wounded Knee. Cody holds the hands of the two men on either...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stands in the center of the back row of a group of Native American chiefs and several United States government officials, possibly after the Battle of Wounded Knee. Standing at the far right of the group is...

Frank Granard, chief of the U.S. Scouts, poses on horseback near where Chief Rocky Bear of the Oglala Sioux stands. Rocky Bear was the leader of the Sioux people who were members of the cast of Buffalo Bill's Wild West prior to Iron Tail. Several...

A man in an overcoat poses beside a canvas-roofed automobile on a road in Bear Creek Canyon in Jefferson County, Colorado. Snow and ice cover part of Bear Creek and the road. Shows a reinforced log embankment beside the creek. Trees and rocks are...

Automobiles and a horse drawn wagon are on a dirt road beside Bear Creek in Bear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. Shows a convertible car and people in the wagon shaded by a parasol. Shows trees and steep rock canyon walls. A sign near...

A woman in a long skirt, a shirtwaist with lace cuffs, and a hat with flowers, sits and poses beside Bear Creek in Bear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. A woman in a dress and hat, and a man in a coat, tie and a cap stand on a suspension...

View of an arched bridge constructed with decorative pine logs and a rustic stick railing, over Bear Creek in Bear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. Snow is in the canyon and beside trees on hillsides.

View of rocks, sticks and debris in the dry Bear Creek creek bed near Morrison in Jefferson County, Colorado. Shows a frame barn, covered livestock stalls, and a broken fence washed out by the flood. A clapboard house and a frame building are...

A frame building with a false front, fences and probably an outhouse are beside Bear Creek and a ditch identified as "Harriman ditch" in Bear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. Shows rock levees near buildings at the edge of the creek after...

View of wooden stairs and a suspension foot bridge over Bear Creek in probably Bear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. The bridge has decorative hewn log and stick pillars, supports and a railing. A support cable is staked in the ground. A...

Men pose beside a log balanced on a large rock in Bear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. A sign on the log reads: "If You Knew How This Log Come Here [sic] You Would Camp On High Ground." The men on the rock have sledgehammers, probably to...

A horse drawn carriage with passengers pulls up to a bridge at the Otto Mear's tollroad (Million Dollar Highway) in Ouray County between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado. A man stands next to a wood building and Bear Creek Falls is just below the toll...

Chief Kicking Bear speaks from inside the council circle of Native American Lakota Sioux, as he attempts to convince the remaining Ghost Dancers to give up their weapons, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.

Two Bear, seated, Dakota, with son and daughter standing beside him, full length studio portrait with painted backdrop; Two Bear wears scarf tied at neck, vest, long shirt, pants and moccasins; his son wears suit jacket, vest and pants; his...

Bear Feathers, a Native American member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, poses for a half-length portrait wearing a floral print shirt and breast plate, possibly made of bone. A blanket is on Bear Feathers' lap.

Comprehensive index created of the 1885 Arapahoe County, Colorado State Census created by The Colorado Genealogical Society. Geographically included in the index is: present Denver, Arapahoe and Adams counties. Information included in the index...